Transcript: Fundamentals Of Mercy
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The experience is a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network. Be a man encounter God, his presence and his power in an atmosphere of worship and the word. Join apostle Emmanuel as he leads us into an experience with God. I was sharing with my workers a vision that I saw that shows a picture of what would be happening in the next year. And I saw a large door, a large iron door, a large gated door. Glory to God. I saw a lot. I saw a vision here. And the vision that I saw was that of a metal gate and the gate was like all these bunker gates that used to be very thick that the width of the gate is as a stick but it can form a wall. A huge gate, terrible looking gate and it was as high as the heavens to the earth.
And I saw a large crowd of people just behind the gates. And at the other end of the gate, saw a golden city. I saw several things. I saw thunders. I saw lightning. And as the thunder and lightning struck, the gates opened of their own accord. And as the gates opened a large crowd of people that I saw on the other end started moving into this golden city, started moving into this golden, they were moving in large numbers and I was asking the holy spirit what do these things mean? The holy spirit told me that one of the things that will characterize the coming year for the disciples Christian network is open doors. I started praying so deeply within my spirit. I started praying so deeply within my spirit.
And the more I prayed, the more the vision became clearer and clearer as to what I would expect to see in the coming year. And one of the operations by which these things will happen is what I intend to share today. Then we'll prophesy. Is that okay? Yes sir. In a very short charge that I have titled the fundamentals of mercy. It is very instrumental. Very instrumental in what will be happening next year. Mercy. The fundamentals of mercy.
Your best bet would not be to depend on your intelligence because it would be here when there will be see towards rising innovations and inventions. Just listen to me. Calm down. Just listen to me, please. So I saw towards, I saw innovations, saw inventions, I saw national breakthroughs in some places, but I also saw systems collapse. I also saw nations coming down. I saw invasions of nations into other nations. I saw all kind of things happening. I don't want to be specific or even mention the nations. Like I said, it depends on many factors.
But in the midst of all of that, it would be wise not to depend on your intelligence because there will be so much happening next year, especially as the house, even all over the body of Christ. There will be so much happening next year. And the mercy of God is instrumental the upliftment of people, in the breaking out and the searching out of people that will be witnessing. The mercy of God. It would not be wise to depend on your intelligence. It would not be wise to depend on your strength. It would not be wise to depend on your might. And because you understand this, you would also reach out to what your strength cannot perform. You would also reach out to do what your might cannot perform. You would also reach out to do.
In other words, when you write in your goals, it will be good to write impossible things. Because the operation that will power the manifestations of people is the mercy of God. Psalms chapter 19 verse 12, the bible says, so teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Return oh Lord. How long? And have compassion. On your servants. Have compassion. The word compassion is also the word mercy. Have mercy on us.
Oh, can somebody cry in one moment? Have mercy. Can you say Lord have mercy on me Lord have mercy on me. Have mercy. Have mercy. Have mercy. Have mercy. Thank you, Lord Jesus. The word compassion is the word mercy. I believe that if your life lacks mercy there are things on earth that you will never do.
And this is a well taught church. So you know that by now, mercy is not an exclusive reserve for sinners. If your life lacks mercy, there are things you will never do. The reason is because by default, the odds are against a lot of people. That if God were to live the outcome of our lives solely to the principles that makes for results many of us are done for. I understand that there is a dimension of the power of God that is attached to his principles. I want you begin to study the principles, you will find out that the odds are against a lot of people. And if God were to live the outcomes of our lives, Solely to how much and how far we are able to go principle wise. A lot of us will never become anything. A lot of us will never become anything.
Many of us are already done for. If God says the outcome of your life would be solely dependent of the principles that have been set. The whole would have become of men like Saul. Who was on a journey to go and kill believers in Damascus. What principle was he obeying? You shall seek the Lord with all your heart. Whoever comes to him must believe that he is. What principle? He was slaughtering believers. Killing believers.
Right on his way to go and even finish an assignment to kill more believers. He had an encounter. And a bright light shines upon him brighter than the sun. How do men become great in God like that? When it is obvious that the odds are stacked against them. You did not walk with Jesus while he was on earth. You have been a Pharisee all your life. And you were alive while he was alive. But you rejected his messages. Probably he was even one of the Pharisees that fought him, who knows?
I mean Peter was there. I mean James was there, John was there, Andrew was there. Simon, Peter. All these other mightier apostles were there. Who walked with Jesus? And Jesus looked at Anasasim. What principle was that man following? If anybody was to write to third of the epistles, should it not be those who would say ah, these ones have walked with Jesus. You don't understand this thing I'm saying. That if the outcome of your life is entirely dependent on principles, some of us are done for.
Some of us will never rise in life. The Hebrew word for mercy is the word recommined. And it carries the concept of divine intervention that overrides natural limitations. Or natural conditions or natural principles. Now, it's very important that you note the word natural limitations. Natural conditions. Natural principles. Those three things are very important. Because when mercy shows up, mercy overrides the three of them. So mercy overrides not just your limitation.
You might not be limited in yourself. Just that conditions around you have limited you. You understand what I'm saying? For instance, you don't know anybody but you want to rise. You have no access to connection, to corridors of power. But you know that this thing that you have, this skill that you have, this market you are selling, this business that you know, this construction that you are into, this skill, this hairdressing skill, this makeup that you do, this thing that you do. Kings, kings should be able. To have access to you. You are skillful enough to serve kings. But your father does not know anybody.
Your mother does not know anybody. Condition have already put you at a disadvantage even though you are skillful. You didn't grow up from a place where access or exposure was an advantage. Your secondary school was probably built with planks or with woods. So you would not have even said, I met children of rich men that gave me exposure. The only advantage that you have is that you are skillful at this. And you realize that CSTW a man. Diligent in his work. Has several conditions around it that makes him stand amongst kings. And not amongst mere men.
Are you with me? That when conditions are stacked against a man, what becomes the faith of that man? Naturally, this is what should be. The mercy says, it doesn't have to be that. That means without mercy, your background will determine your future. Your educational level will cap the extent of your influence. Your family's financial status will limit your access to determine whether you'll be wealthy or not. Your geographical location will restrict opportunities available to you because these are natural principles. These are natural principles. Without mercy, somebody born at the backside of the desert will die there.
Is there a hand that finds people who are hidden and says the world must know this one? Is there a hand that takes a man from the miry clay? And says I will put you in the front of men. Because this light that I've put on your inside will shine. Is there a hand that can make the visibility and the extent of a man's result go beyond the natural skills that that man has? Go beyond the natural skills that man has. Do you know that by natural principle, by natural principle, David had no chance of becoming king? Following natural principles. He was the youngest son of a shepherd from the tribe of Judah. When monarchy belonged to Benjamin through Saul.
In other words, it would mean that if the monarchy system was to be followed, it should be a son of Saul that should be king. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's not even from the tribe of Benjamin. It's from the tribe of Judah. He was the youngest. His brothers were older. They were taller. They were more experienced in warfare. And in first Samuel 16 verse 11, when Samuel came to come and anoint a king and he was told by God to open Jesus' house. He requested that Jesus should bring all his children outside and the father of David not even considered David worthy of being a king.
David was not even invited to the selection ceremony. His own father did not consider him king material. By human calculation, David would have lived and died as a rural shepherd. By human calculation. By human logic. Because tell me, if your father does not count you worthy to become a king. And they say go and call all your children. And your father says, these are all my children and you are not among. What does it mean? No, let's be sensible.
The prophet did not say call the one you think will be king. He said call all your children. And the man brought his children outside and left out the last born. What does it tell you? If it was a problem of maybe was far away from where they were, would he not have told the prophet that there's still one more but he's far. We've gone to go and call him already. I've sent someone. Mhmm. He just kept quiet. Almost as though king and this one to fear God.
And never be. So if the people that should believe in you, if the people that should present you in front of opportunities, that should mention your name when open door arises. You are not understanding what I'm saying. That they said we heard that you have a son who does this thing. And we actually need him oh. There's one like there's a senator that is looking for somebody to take on that contract. I heard that you have somebody who can do it. And the person that should speak on your behalf says, that one cannot really do it very, very well. I know somebody else. That's what happened to David.
When by natural principles, the people who should open doors for you intentionally decide that you are not worthy of the doors and they recommend everybody except you, by what principle or by what hand will you use and enter the person's heart and say let's wait for David. That is the operation of mercy. So that you will understand why this thing is called the sure mercies of David. The operation of mercy on David started even before he was a king. I have a teaching like that next year called the sure mercies of David. It started even before he was a king Because by natural principle, that thing should have skipped him. The Bible even said when Samuel, accurate as he was, saw the firstborn, he said, here, surely, this must be the king. And the destiny of a king was about to be skipped over because a prophet looked at the physical appearance of another and said this must be the king. Is that not how what belongs to others have been stolen? Is that not how promotions have been taken from people who should get the promotion and have been given to other people?
These things will happen when mess does not speak for you. I'm telling you, people will riot you successfully. They will take what should be yours. And because you don't have too much connection, they will cheat you. People will conclude on projects. And then I want to ask you to come and tell them, this person you want to give, why not give that one? Damn. And that's it. What should already be signed? What you were expecting for, just let them send the money.
They just changed their mind. I wonder why did they change their mind. Hey. I'm telling you that when mercy does not speak, natural conditions will determine your outcome. Your outcome will be based on who spoke, who did not speak, who approved it, no approved, Who recommended, who do not recommend. But when mercy begins to operate in the life of a man, it circumvents what should be. That even if somebody comes to say, I don't want this person, mercy says, I want him. And there is nothing you can do about it. It is either you bow to the father, I want him, or you die. Or we remove you.
But this is the person that will occupy this position. When mercy begins to operate life of man, it takes natural principles. What should be? I hope you know that your family has a role to play in the fulfillment of God's purposes upon your life. Are you aware? That scripturally speaking, parents are handed the prophetic blueprint of their children's life. That there is an active role that they have to play in partnership with that blueprint that brings about the quick manifestations of God's plan over your life. This is scripture. This is scripture. You read the bible, you would find that this is true.
The angel appeared onto almost every parent in scripture whose children had prophetic destinies and are handed over the mandate of their destinies to the parents. And the responsibility of the parent is to monitor the fulfillment of that prophecy until the child entered into the fulfillment of it. It happened to Samson. It happened to John. It happened to Jesus. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Now question, what happens when you did not grow up in the best of backgrounds? What happens when your parents are Muslims? Who cannot even tap into the frequency of a blueprint? You know, you don't understand what it means for huts to be stacked against a man.
What happen when your parents are Muslims? What happens when your father is a babalau? What happens when you stand side by side with a man whose ancestry have been prayer warriors? Your own ancestry have been babalaw's. They have been passing it from one generation to the next. The church. His general... Grandfather is general overseer. You stand side by side together in the faith of destiny. What separates between the two of you?
You don't understand what I'm saying. Do you realize that the odds are stacked against that man? Yeah. But for mercy. But for mercy. But for mercy. Oh, I love Jesus. There's no way you'd understand this, will not love Jesus. Daddy says to him, his mercies are new. Every morning.
Like in the face of discouragement, mercy still speaks. You'd sing that song a lot, mercy says no. Do you know what it means? It means principles say yes. Background says yes. This person's life should be destroyed. Yes. This person did not have the best of backgrounds and so this is what should happen. Yes. This person had had several abortions in the past.
This person is not deserving of a good marriage. Yes. This person probably used to be a prostitute or a wrong girl or a this or a that. There's no reasonable man who has a prophetic destiny upon his life that should find this one and say this is the person I want to marry. Yes. This person has no knowledge of business. His father did not teach him any financial skills. He is not even illiterate. He wanted to go to university, but he could not go because his father could not afford to send him. He tried sending himself, but stocks were stacked against him.
All the work he was trying to do was not even sufficient to pay his school fees. Now he has to drop out of school. Because he has dropped out of school, he shouldn't get a good job. His finances should be broken and down. Yes. But mercy says no. No to what should be judgment. No to what should be the outcome. No to what should happen. No to how things should go.
No to how things should be. No to how results should happen. No. But there's another way I can route a man's life. That the GPS system I can use to reroute a man's destiny. Even in the midst of multiple mistakes, even in the midst of multiple errors. Some is not even about mistakes or errors. Some is condition. Some is not even about condition. Some is the limitation of principles.
Therefore, I don't know anybody. You understand what I'm saying? In a country that so depend on connection. You look at the young man whose father abandoned the family, leaving his mother to work three jobs to survive. No one taught him financial principles. No one explained business concepts to him. No one demonstrated leadership skills to him. His classmates are inheriting their family business. What he has to inherit is debt and dysfunction. What happens to that young man?
What happens to the young woman that what he saw growing up is just fight between her family? Many of you don't even know that purpose is time bound. The Bible say there is a time for every purpose. A time for every purpose. Question, what happen when you by your own foolishness miss Kairos moments? Now you don't know that you have even missed because they don't announce themselves. What happen when time passes, when seasons pass? And you are pregnant of seasons beyond your own comprehension. And you don't know that you have kept even four kairos moment that should have pushed you to an eternal point in destiny. What happened when heaven looks at you and says, ah, you're not where you should be brother.
At this point, the karous moment came, but you were so foolish that you were blind, you were not prepared when it came because you see, karous moment lead to breakthroughs and success when opportunity meets preparation. Now the opportunity come, but you were not prepared. The karous moment came but left you because you did not know. The same thing if if Goliath had come and David was not prepared and he ran back, he would not have known that that was his opportunity to have become a king. That is how karate moments came. He would not look because Goliath had not come screaming, where is David? Goliath said, is there any man that is here? That is how karok moments come. Who can? Who will?
Under your own fear discouraged you. Because of fear, you say I cannot do it. But it was a karok moment for you. So when we look at you from the vista of heaven, we find out that you have lost so many seasons. What happens to your destiny? There's no mercy. You're not getting this thing I'm saying. Don't get this. It means a lot of us will never become anything great. Because at some parts in my life, I deviated.
I wanted to be a pastor so strongly when I was a small boy. But there was deviation at some point. I started going for comedy shows. I started going for all kind of things. What happened to many of us like that? That you were on the right path too and all of a sudden, you deviated if mercy does not speak. If mercy does not speak. He came on the pulpit and said I'm not proud of my past. But look at where he is. What happen to men like that if mercy does not speak?
Can I give an example here on go bit? Let me give an example here on go bit. I'm giving the example because it's public. Yes. And with all due respect and honor to every party concerned and love. To every party concerned. Abba Nabu he said that he married his wife when he was an unbeliever. That means that the principles he used to pick a wife was not Godly because he was an unbeliever. So he wasn't looking at a wife that will have the fear of God even him did not fear God. You are not understanding what I'm saying.
He was an unbeliever. Benin said that before he married, when God showed him who he would marry, he told God the kind of food. He said, if this is really the person, God has showed him. He said, you know, he was on transit to go and meet the lady. And he told God that if this is where the person... Let her cook this for me just as a fleece or something like that. Just as a playful thing really. He said, let me show. Let her cook this for me. I got there.
And the old lady said, oh, wow. Welcome. I've just cooked that same thing for you. And lady said, don't get all excited. It might not be bad. It might not be good because I don't I don't even know how to cook it. It's my first time cooking it. So it's not as though it's a thing that they do every day. Do you get my point? That she does every day.
So immediately that... It means he had a witness in his prayer that my goodness. God, this is it. Yet they divorced. Another man, now we know they are back together after many years and God is helping them. But look at my point. Another man in his unbelieving state looks at the woman and say I want to marry you. Fine girl. And then that unbelieving state, marry. Start their life together as husband and wife.
In that unbelieving state Becomes a lecturer. Then finds Jesus. Goes to the wife. I've accepted the life of Christ oh. I'm now a believer. The wife say let me to be a believer and becomes a believer. And fifty six years after. Something that did not begin on a Godly foundation. Whereas the other says, God, I even saw you in my vision. How do you balance the scales?
How do you balance the equations? Can't you see that if you rely on equations, your life will not be balanced? Can't you see that there needs to be something that elevates me? There needs to be something that differentiates my results from what men can see, from what ordinary eyes can fathom, that my life cannot go by what human logic and natural explanations can give. There needs to be that difference in my life. His leadership potential was already destroyed. By natural calculation, he has already destroyed whatever diplomatic chance of fulfilling destiny that he has. It means that by natural calculation, if Hayy would release the children of Israel was to be a kind of diplomatic relationship between himself using his connection to the palace to negotiate a release. He had already spot that opportunity because now he has committed treason. My Exodus seven and verse seven says that Moses was 80 years old.
Abraham was 83 years old when they spoke to pharaoh. At 80, somebody's life is just starting. When by natural calculation, you should be planning out to how where they will bury you right in your will. To your children. But at eight, God appears to a man and says young man, what's the meaning of I've lost time when there is mercy? What's the meaning of time is gone when there is mercy? How do you measure time? Do you know what time is? When the owner of time chooses to invade time and picks a man's life and say, but sir, I should have married. Hey, do you know what mercy is?
Have you heard this? Have you heard this? Have you heard this? No moral credentials, no family connection to God's covenant people. By natural principles, she had no access to the promise of God. She had no business participating in the plans of God. But when mercy spoke. Mercy did not only save a life, mercy positioned high in the lineage of Christ. Our background became irrelevant when mercy intervened. And the prostitute became the great great grandmother of the king of king David.
Who became the ancestral mother of Jesus by mercy. That you understand why it is called the short message of David. That it did not begin from David. It's a pattern that led David to where he was. That even the great great great grandmother of David was real. Who was only featured in destiny by operation of mercy. Is is We only one are the of the God. That when you think a man should be destroyed, that's why you should not look at people and conclude on them based on their mistakes. Password message also. It takes your disadvantage to the ground and it turns it into your unique qualification.
It takes the opportunities you have missed and creates new windows of breakthrough. It takes your next steps and gives you supernatural acceleration that surpasses those who started heavy. Show us compassion. Are you into the context? Show us compassion. There are many things that happen when God shows a man mercy. But there is one in particular I'm interested in. And it is what happened as a result of mercy. It means what governs early satisfaction is mercy. Let me explain to you how.
Because by natural principles, there is a time that you are supposed to get things done in life. It's not normal that the young person at 21, 19, 22, three, four, five, you're talking about work. Means you went to work. You're meant to get 100 foot, but it is not the fact that you went to work. Mercy said, let's give him a million foot. Mercy is what ensures that the same thing that you did What's to this day? How many days to the end of the year? Can I ask you a question? How long did it take God to make the world? How long do you think it will make him to make your life?
Can a lot not still happen in ten days? I see the power of God so strong upon men. Because I'm yearning in my spirit. I'm yearning my spirit. I see about, I see about 10 brothers. 10 brothers. And I hear establishment. Let me explain to you what I'm saying. Let me explain to you what I'm saying. God says, I am dipping your foot in the ground.
It means nothing will shake you again. It means, it means, it means that business that went up and went down and went up and went down is becoming established. That career is becoming established. Your life is receiving establishment. Receive it now. Whatever is due in your life, it comes right now. If your house is due, it comes now. If your office is due, it comes now. If your machine is due, it comes now. If your car is due, it comes now.
In the name of Jesus. If your marriage is due, it comes now. In the name of Jesus. The doors have opened now. The doors have opened now. The doors have opened now. Enter in the name of Jesus. Thank you for listening to this message. We trust you have been blessed. You can get more life transforming messages from apostle Emmanuel Boluwatife on our Telegram page at DCN media channel.
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